Example sentences of "still [verb] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus was an It still smelling of an earlier American decade 's cultural anarchy unattractive to him , and the new Oz appealing . |
| 2 | I still remain of the view that that would be undesirable . |
| 3 | A few writers still speak of a permanent discontinuity between the biological sciences and the social sciences , grounded in epistemology ( Eccles , 1980 ) or at least forced by a fundamental difference in goals ( Hampshire , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 5 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 6 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 7 | If he were not , there are stories still told of the Williams temperament . |
| 8 | Kenya , one of its main strongholds , could still boast of a 20,000 strong population at the end of the 1960s , but over the next decade , poaching on an unprecedented scale — mainly by Somali bandits armed with AK 47s — had reduced their numbers to a few hundred . |
| 9 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 10 | The sententiae are still firmly attached to the view that trusts operate in personam , but they still know of the restricted real protection allowed by the missio . |
| 11 | Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital . |
| 12 | The idea will have been elaborated through contact with what was still known of the Trojan legend . |
| 13 | But it remains true that this culminating defence , conservative and apologetic as it is , still partakes of the same fundamental challenge to gender division as the other defences . |
| 14 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 15 | Leonora felt a sudden pang to learn he still thought of the fair Melanie as a Vaughan . |
| 16 | Family tradition still speaks of the pleasure given by the poet 's recitations . |
| 17 | At night , she still dreamt of the endless drugged hours she had spent jolting and rolling in the darkness of the car-boot , the hours of motion on land and sea of which she had only been dimly aware . |
| 18 | Reports still spoke of the impatience with which people awaited the final attack on Britain . |
| 19 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 20 | Also , in our house I still think of the woman who used to live there . |
| 21 | I still think of the people of the region with affection for all the help and courtesy they showed me . |
| 22 | Still deprived of a response , she played another card . |
| 23 | When they think of sexual power , they 're still thinking of a single reality situation . |
| 24 | He was evidently still thinking of the girl , for the obscenity was automatic and his voice was clipped and distant . |
| 25 | They were still thinking of the kingdom in materialistic terms . |
| 26 | The election was without socialist candidates but still consisted of the Tsar enemies , mainly liberals and social revolutionaries . |
| 27 | Much still remains of the earlier medieval university and downstairs you can wander through a maze of beautiful simple passages and rooms with quadripartite vaulting . |
| 28 | Gloves used to handle a defensive skunk still stink of the animal 's scent more than a year after contact . |
| 29 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 30 | Homophobia is always a handy excuse for not buying records , but it still reeks of the subhuman . |